SUMMARY:

• Seeking IT consultant position with 5 years experience in BA/QA Analyst. Experience in enterprise wide web based applications including e - business, custom client-server applications. Software Analysis Manual/Back end Testing of Client Server applications. My experience includes team leadership, writing test plans and test cases in both Agile and Waterfall testing methodologies. Quick learner, have ability to work under pressure in fast paced time sensitive environments. Team player and alternatively can work independently to achieve objectives.
• Over 6 years of IT experience as a Business & Quality Assurance Analyst involved in all aspects of SDLC and working with small, mid and large size teams for both commercial and Federal clients
• Experienced in customer interfacing, writing requirements, Software QA Testing, writing SQL queries in Oracle
• Experience with UNIX, writing basic logs
• Developed and maintained test plans & test cases as a team lead for major enhancements and releases
• Sound knowledge and experience in SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) and Test Planning Process.
• Directly interfaced with customers during requirements gathering/analysis, evaluating the requirements and performing effort estimation after discussion with team members
• Assisted PM to prioritize, assign and track the status of individual projects/releases and generate status reports
• Created the requirements traceability matrix (RTM) and tracked test cases and results against those requirements
• Well-versed in planning, analyzing requirements from use cases, creating test plans/test cases and executing them for Integration, System, Performance, Backend and Acceptance testing
• Wrote SQL queries to interact with ORACLE database and ensure data integrity
• Perform peer reviews on team member’s tasks / work products
• Excellent team player with good analytical, problem solving, interpersonal and communication skills. Proven ability to work efficiently in both independent and small/big size team environments
• Quality assurance experience ranges from functional and system testing using Agile and Waterfall development methodologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Manual, integration, performance, Functional, UAT, Regression testing
• Bug Tracking Tools- Quickbase, JIRA, PVCS, KANBAN
• SDLC Implementation
• Client engagement and support Citrix Go - To - Meeting
• Release management Release Management
• Configuration management Production support and migrations
• JAVA,HTML, XML, SQL 2008 Windows 2008
• System management and archiving Disaster recovery
• Data Analytics and Reporting BPM TOOL - PEGA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

QA/BA

Confidential, Herndon

Responsibilities:

• Performed lots of manual testing.
• Tested check readers, ID scanners on windows 7 and on windows 8.
• Followed Agile methodology.
• Attended scrum meeting
• Worked closely with developers
• Attended sprint and retrospective meetings.
• Used KANBAN tool for reporting bugs.
• Tested if the company has bounced other checks.
• Tested If the customer has passed other bad checks.
• Identified customers with returns by fingerprint alone.
• Compared biometric device with fingerprints of new customers with those of every customer with a returned check.
• Tested various apps in paycheck secure application.

QA/BA

Confidential, Reston, VA

Responsibilities:

• Participate in requirements, design, change management and project status meetings.
• Meeting with customer for requirements clarifications, approvals, and status updates and testing follow - up.
• Creating and updating requirements documents based on the customer inputs.
• Developing test plan/test case creation and test execution.
• Perform defect tracking and reporting using JIRA.
• Interact with customers / end users & development team during requirements, design, development and test phases as well as when Customer Acceptance Testing is in progress
• Updating internal SharePoint project sites with all necessary artifacts such as kickoff documents, team list, Stakeholder contacts, PM documents, communication plans, risk plans, meeting minutes, status reports, requirement docs, test plans, scripts and results, release tracker, customer approvals, lessons learned etc.
• Planning, conducting and leading the overall testing and quality Participate in requirements, design, change management and project status meetings.
• Lead the application analysis, test strategy development, test plan/test case creation and test execution.
• Perform defect tracking and reporting using JIRA, used JIRA to create workflows Used JIRA to add Business requirements so it will be easy for developers and QA to access Setup and maintain test environments, execute test cases and document test results, defects and track issue resolution.
• Directly interact with customers / end users during requirements meetings, user acceptance testing and end user training.
• Interact with development teams to understand product requirements, testing needs and create/execute various test strategies such as Functional, User Interface, Backend, Security, Performance and overall system - level testing.
• Perform effort estimation, develop QA timelines and work with the QA team to ensure timely completion of task deliverables.
• Work with the automation team and effectively use automated testing tools to increase overall test coverage and improve testing efficiencies.
• Perform extensive backend and performance testing using SQL and TOAD.
• Upload / Download large volume of data between MS Excel and Oracle database using TOAD.
• Conduct peer reviews on team member s work and periodically provide status report to the manager on the team s overall status.

Release Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Communicated with Project Managers/Business Analysts/Directors to prioritize the projects coming in QA and created process through Quick base Published weekly and monthly summaries detailing the health of key business processes and reflecting trends in performance.
• Used JIRA to add release tickets that will go to production.
• Understood key business process and the system components needed for them to function correctly.

QA/BA Analyst

Confidential, Reston, VA

Responsibilities:

• Confidential is a full service technology service and solutions provider for state and local government agencies.
• Confidential provides best of class integrated solutions for land records management, vital records management, court records management, court management and other solutions for government.
• Confidential 's integrated Land Information System (AiLIS) provides the capability to electronically capture all aspects of the operation of a public records office, including cashiering, imaging, data entry, verification, administrative reports, public access, internet access, e-commerce, e-filing, and automatic indexing.

Project Land

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Participate in requirements meetings with the customer, evaluate those requirements with the team members, perform scope and effort analysis and provide status reports to the management.
• Create / modify test plans / cases in accordance with the requirements traceability matrix and execute the same and verify the results.
• Mentor team members in test plan creation and execution and perform peer reviews.
• Perform Functional, Integration and end to end Regression testing for all modules in AiLIS.
• Play an active role in various QA processes such as defect tracking, test case management, creating automated test strategies, etc.
• Performed volume testing with massive amounts of data
• Write SQL queries using Sql Plus and TOAD to create/update/delete sample test data on database tables and verifying the results through the online screen and batch processes.
• Used SQL to create test data and worked with the team members to make sure the data is available for their testing.
• Develop and maintain acceptance test checklists for build verification.
• Worked on tight schedules for multi - million dollar projects and has been part of the team that successfully implemented those projects.
• Actively used PVCS tracker to log the issues found during testing and to track their progress.
• Mentored a team of 3 junior testers and has developed several test plans and test case scenarios for certain key modules of all the above Confidential s applications.
• Worked closely with the development team in understanding the system design and have won accolades from other development team managers for suggesting ways to effectively test and improve the overall quality of the product.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created test plans, test cases and test data for various releases, based on the business requirements.
• Evaluated the build contents against the requirements (using the requirements document for each release of the product), provided effort estimates, and timely feedback on progress, towards completing the project on time.
• Responsible for functional, integration, performance and system testing.
• Created test plans and test cases for different test scenarios from start to finish (for some of the modules) based on the business requirements that were given to me.
• Performed manual testing for data entry forms, query forms and report (parameter) forms.
• Responsible for writing simple SQL queries against Oracle database to setup real time data for testing purpose.
• Documented and managed all the test cases using MS Word and Excel.
• Tested reports developed using Oracle Reports
• Managed the requirements, test plan, test cases, results and bug fixes using Quality Center.
• Submitted weekly bug reports to my team manager.